How black people still need to outwit racists in rural America

Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by istjohn on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:40PM (#16354675)

I would hope calling cruel bigots in Missouri or anywhere else "some of the worst of humanity" is not divisive.

> In 2014, a group of 15 white schoolgirls blacked up their faces for a game of football. A few months previously, as riots blazed in Ferguson after the police shooting of Michael Brown, a group of Sullivan residents, Wehmeyer’s neighbour among them, staged a KKK march through town.

In as much as his comment makes an observation from his own experience that is congruent with the thrust of the article: the American South continues to be flush with cruel, unabashed racists, I'm not sure why it is being censored. Does it cross the line to say in plain language what the article says circuitously?

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by greglindahl on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:04PM (#16354793)

Dang posting a polite comment, to which the author responded positively by editing his post, is censoring?

Excessive generalization is the problem, by the way. It's important to be careful to criticize a particular behavior without criticizing everyone in the region.

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by istjohn on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:10PM (#16354819)

>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or "inconvenient" (wikipedia)

Yes, and it effected the desired result: the speech was altered.

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by sethrin on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:24PM (#16354896)

Yes, and this is consistent with the rules of this private forum.

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by dang on Sunday February 11, 2018 @07:22PM (#16355623)

There are many kinds of cruelty. It's possible to eschew one without practicing another, and very much in the community interest.

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by ScottBurson on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:44PM (#16354703)

Note that the original post has been edited (see sibling comment to yours).

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Re:How black people still need to outwit racists in rural Am... by Mononokay on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:46PM (#16354714)

He was referring to the original. Hence the comment on "some of the worst of humanity," a bit of wording I used in the original post, not the edited one.

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